Priestly game show hosts

Game show comparisons have now reached new levels. Heavenly levels, in fact. An English columnist remarks that priests have become game show hosts.

Truth to tell, St. Peter, I blogged a while back about a genuine-article priest who hosts a kids game show on a local cable network in New England. But back in old England, the columnist was upset that a priest officiating at a wedding "addressed the bride and groom as 'guys' and the congregation as 'folks.'" The priest also cracked jokes and announced: "What Paul is harping on about in the Bible is love." These comments called game show hosts to the columnist's mind, though I don't necessarily see the connection.

After all, if Anne Robinson had conducted the nuptials, she probably would have asked the bride and groom: "What on earth do you see in each other?" But as I've said too many times, game show comparisons are naturals for writers wanting to sound funny or folksy. It's swell that the comparisons have arrived in theological precincts.